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2 Timothy 1:12 read on one pronoun. Paul, in his final letter, does not say he knows WHAT he has believed but WHOM - and Neville makes the contrast the whole point. Everyone will tell you what he believes: ask a Christian who knows the creed and he will repeat the Apostles' Creed, this is what he believes - and that, says Neville, is all theology and all the ceremonies of the outer world (1929). Paul's object is not a set of propositions but a person. The move that follows is the one this motif exists to record: Paul defines Christ as the power and the wisdom of God (M855), and **having defined it as power and wisdom, he personifies it, personalises it - because it is himself.** So an apparently impersonal power is discovered to have a face, and the face is the believer's own: he found it in himself, and you will never find him on the outside. It is the same observation Neville makes of his own experience at 1108 - that which seemed to be an impersonal power suddenly takes on human form and it is he - and it belongs with the claim that in eternity everything is human. The instruction attached at 98 is short: when you find him, don't let him go; let everything else go, but don't let him go. Five lectures: 98, 1911, 1929, 2032, 2061. PROVENANCE: coined 2026-09-20 OUT OF SEQUENCE from attach-lane evidence rather than from my own chronological read. I raised the gap from 1108 and the attach lead supplied the canonical and the lecture list (PM 6107/6112); I read the passages before coining but have not read lecture 98 whole. The architect ruled out-of-sequence coining acceptable on this condition (PM 6056); occurrence confidence is 0.95.

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2 Timothy 1:12 | I know whom I have believed
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Having defined it as power and wisdom, he personifies it, personalizes it. Because it’s himself

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And yet he defines Christ as “the power and the wisdom of God.” Having defined it as power and wisdom, he personifies it, personalizes it. Because it’s himself…that’s what he found. He found it in himself. You’ll never find him on the outside.
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